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Could be that this latest deal could be a by product of the previous "sole licensee" where Ferrari sold sole licensing rights to Mattel corporation, and they turned around and leased individual licenses to just about anyone who wanted to release anything Ferrari. The only one who really profited was Mattel, and it seems that Ferrari was the biggest loser in that all control over what was released went to Mattel, not Ferrari. I don't know how long that contract was for, or if it would be voided by Ferrari changing controlling forces, but I bet Ferrari's death in the model world is highly over reported, and it won't be long before we see new model announcements.

When my daughter and her husband had their hobby shop, we had one supplier who was blowing out the pre 98 AMT NASCAR kits for $1.99 each, and Toy Liquidators was retailing the same kits for $4.00, so needless to say I have a few of them, also a pretty good stash of the Quaker State Steve Kinser Sprints, and the Testors Boyds kits, of the Aluma Coupe, and Chezoom, for some reason (I think a new worker didn't change the settings on the price gun) we went in one Tuesday when their kits came in, and they had ALL of those new stock kits marked at $1.99 each, we bought every one of every kit they had on the shelves.

Would anyone out there have any usable photos they could scan and mail of the Dick Armstrong Ford Powered modifieds? Both the Pinto, and the Mustang II. I'm trying to collect all the things needed to build replicas of the two, especially the speedway Mustang II. Thanks for any help I receive in advance. Del

Those earlier releases were especially good for drive train and chassis parts, their nine inch Ford rear end's were perfect for swapping into almost anything since they didn't even have any spring perches molded in the housing, or big locating notches you had to fill. A if you really wanted to widen one or make a special housing it was as simple as sawing the housings off where the center section strengthening ended and drilling a hole through the entire remaining part, then just insert the aluminum or brass tube of the appropriate size and go from there, you could use plastic tube also, and insert styrene round rod into the ends for mounting brakes, wheels etc.

I even miss Rierside Hobbies, I would drive down from Redding every few months to do a little shopping, but mainly to stock up on Tamiya paints neither of the local stores will bother to stock, even after explaining that my usual bill for just paint when I went down was in the $250 range. And R/C Country isn't any better than our local stores on that point, haven't been to the Hobby Town in Folsom yet. Any better inventory their?

Thank you kind sir, since I just had a long recovery time surgery, maybe if I'm real nice the wife will go by the local plastic emporium, and watch out for its release or maybe even have them put one on hold for me when they come in.

The reason I asked when we might expect them, and asked it here is because it was one of these threads where I asked if there were plans for a shortbed F-150 other than the M K release and he answered with a simple yes, just got curious when we might see it.

I think I would have just used the frame rails from the Eliminator kit and built the crossmembers and mounts as needed, but that's just the 1:1 builder peeking through.

You're really doing a nice job on this, I really like the fix you did one the windows, very good job. Something to think about on your next truck build, I've done a couple of mini tubs by using the inner fenders that are usually on the fleetside beds, just cut them free from the bed sides and floors and put them in place on the inside of the bed you're using, clean, quick, and gives it almost a factory built appearance. Ever think of giving it a 50/50 ice cream bar look by going with a pearl cream two tone with that orange?

Not trying to hijack the thread, but while Dave is hanging around and reading it I thought it might be a good time to ask when we might see a standard Moebius run of the shortbed F-150 kits, and will it be available with a choice of engines or just the inline six? Thanks for your time and answers, Del.

There was never any doubt about the make or model, but it did take me Just a little digging to get the correct year.

Since rumors abound that there's a NASCAR release planned, that may be why there's no holes for a muffler, just another hole we won't have to worry about filling in for the race car version. That's the story I'm going to run with anyway,?

I will grant you the oopsie on the interior mirror, but exterior mirrors weren't required in all states until 1967, our neighbor bought a brand new 1959 Bonneville and didn't have the dealer installed outside mirrors put on, he just couldn't bring himself to having holes drilled in the front fenders, but I remember having to buy mirrors at the parts store and drill holes in the fenders of my '56 Chevy when the law requiring a minimum of a left side mirror went into effect in 1967, between my junior and senior year of high school, that's how I kept track of it, otherwise I would have forgot the year, I'm getting older, they tell me anyway, but I refuse to grow up!!

This is a model I'd invest in a case or two of, if only the powers that be realized that there are other thirties cars than Ford's. (Moebius?)

Some really nice builds, but you're trying to fool us into thinking you haven't been model building at all since high school, or just not building cars? Just kidding, we're lucky you found other interests for a while, or the rest of us would be totally demoralized. Just as a side note, if the three on the other side of the Childress car is tilted to the rear also I think you may possibly have them on the opposite doors, I've never seen a Childress three that wasn't forward facing, that's part of his copyright on that number, sort of like the Allison copyright on the number 28, look closely and you will notice that the narrow part of the numbers is only present at the top on Davey Allison driven 28 cars. I didn't know this until years ago a local car owner leased a car to Davey for a Phoenix South West Tour race and Allison shipped him the vinyl to use on the car, with a letter explaining that any of the extra numbers that weren't used for that race weekend he could keep as souvenirs, but he couldn't use them for a race car as they were copyrighted to Davey Allison. If you look really close at pictures of Earnhardt Sr's. cars you will see the tiny ® behind and below the number 3 denoting it being a copyrighted emblem.

Dirt track racing.

You can get that engine from any of the AMT NASCAR kits, but I prefer the earlier ones but it's just my preference. You can also get a nice one from the Revell ASA kits that have V-8 powerplants, but the headers from those kits won't work but the ones from the Nova SS with the small block engine will work, and the Z-28 headers should work too. The only resin engine I've seen that is nice is the Ross Gibson one but it's getting hard to find and expensive since his passing, and the end of production. The other good side of using the NASCAR kits is you can get a couple of them for less than one resin engine, and you get a lot of other parts and pieces to use in building a Sportsman car.

Nope, just the joys of owning your own business, ?

Bill, if you should ever do another one of these tilting front seats there's a secret that the manufacturers came up with that I noticed working in an upholstery shop, the side piece actually has its pivot point farther forward, on the full size car it's usually around nine to twelve inches, this makes the outside of the seat both tilt forward, but also up and in. It makes the rear edge of the seat raise almost straight up before angling in, and in the full size car moves the top outside corner of the seat out of the rear passengers way, and if you haven't noticed yet it also tips the edge of the seat back in to clear the arm rests etc. that stick out from the front door panels enough to hit a seat that tips straight forward. That's why the curve in the side chrome piece, it forms a sort of dog leg for the front pivot point to work from, and still line up with the side chrome when it's down. If you look closely at your picture of the 1:1 front seats, you can see the piece I'm describing, in this instance the restoration shop painted it red and it's just behind the chrome, and on the '59 goes to the lower seat frame where a shouldered bolt with a bushing provides the pivot, and it goes into the frame just about where the notch in the lower seat ends at the forward edge of the notch, usually most factory seat frames are a semi gloss or light gloss black, I guess the person's building this car didn't want them to show at all if possible.

I like what you've got going, especially like the pink paint, just anxiously awaiting your unveiling the second color of the two tone, keep on building your work is great.

In model cars, the Aurora Maserati, and spy version of the Aston Martin, had both at the same time and got them painted, then went on a summer vacation with my cousin for a month and when I got home my mom had cleaned my room and decided I wasn't going to build them and tossed them out. And when I was around five I received a birthday present from an aunt that I've never seen another one like it, it was an early fifties Pontiac sedan and came with the jack, a box of tools and you could jack it up and unbolt the tires, all four were held on with lug nuts under the hub caps, and the spare was in the trunk and it would fit the car correctly. It was also possible to remove the engine and transmission, I think it was meant to be an educational toy for me, and it was. It probably started a life long trek to dismantle every car I've ever owned at one time or another, except the wife's last Optima, and her new one. It's also strange that those are the only two vehicles I've ever had that I've never found out what the top speed was, but there's still time for the new one, it's almost a year old and only has about 6,000 miles on it..

I have one of those in the original box that I picked up at a show, but when I opened it one side of the cage is missing. I assume that any of the correct body style pro stock kits could donate the missing piece. Wasn't that kit just reissued recently?

Well, at least the back's better, now if he can just get over the persistent headache, ;-) lol

Would this be considered a two door sedan, quick loader, even quicker exits in a crash, unless it's one of the middle cars in a multi car stoplight type accident, but I guess that's why the top opens up.

No, the Aluminum Plate is non buffing, the Polished Aluminum is the buffing one.